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I recently attended an event called "Resolving The Money Riddle" hosted by Paul and Mary Blackburn in Sydney, Australia. I highly recommend it. you can find out more from Beyond Success. It was a three day event which included three, ninety minute guest spots with Carli Crutchfield (property development), Andrew & Darryl Grant (internet marketing) and Steve and Sharon Skidmore (share market trading).

Steve and Sharon use the ARLT (Aussie Rob Lifestyle Trader) software to trade Commodities and Forex. Having done some technical trading in the past I was blown away by how easy the ARLT system was to follow and how well Steve and Sharon were doing with it. After hearing their story I immediately bought the complete package that they had and was looking forward to going home and starting my new life trading commodities and forex.

As part of the support that Aussie Rob and Lifestyle Trader supply, there are monthly traders club meetings where you get to meet other traders and compare notes as well as getting more education. I attended my first traders club meeting the other day here in Melbourne and met a couple of guys who had just heard of ARLT and wanted to know a bit more about it. One of them said that he did a search on the internet to see if anyone had made any comments about the software, good or bad, and the only thing he could find was a comment made by someone who was unsuccessful with the software but admitted that he had not followed the rules. This led me to think that I should start a blog to journalise my trading experiences with the ARLT system.

Aussie Rob suggests that you paper trade for ninety days before you start with real money. This gives you the experience you need to make sure that you can follow the rules correctly and not make any mistakes and that you develop the necessary habits to ensure that your trading is successful. The education and support that Lifestyle Trader supply is exceptional, I guess because if they can help you to become successful then they in turn are successful, you bomb out and they will quickly get a bad reputation.

I started paper trading about four weeks ago and I must say that I am quite pleased wth the results so far. The first two weeks were a bit hair raising as I had open trades that were showing a profit but closed trades that were all loses. Put all together and I was still in profit but I was concerned about all the closed trades that weren't profitable.

I then attended a three day workshop that comes as part of the package that I purchased, with questions as to why I had so many closed trades that were loses. Our trainer was Mario a very likable guy who has been trading for a number of years. We had two days in which Mario talked about options, risk management, more options, trading platforms and more options. Do you think that by the third day I knew a bit about options?

Then we got onto commodities and forex, and the very first thing that Mario said answered all my questions. I felt much better about what had been happening with my paper trading and left the workshop feeling much more confident and excited about what was about to happen.